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Small natures require despotism to exercise their sinews, as great souls thirst for equality to give play to their heart. – Honore de Balzac

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Equality is not in regarding different things similarly, equality is in regarding different things differently. – Tom Robbins

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In America everybody is of the opinion that he has no social superiors, since all men are equal, but he does not admit that he has no social inferiors, for, from the time of Jefferson onward, the doctrine that all men are equal applies only upwards, not downwards. – Bertrand Russell

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We must recover the element of quality in our traditional pursuit of equality. We must not, in opening our schools to everyone, confuse the idea that all should have equal chance with the notion that all have equal endowments. – Adlai E. Stevenson

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Everybody thinks that equality comes from identifying people, and thats not where equality comes from. – Matt Bomer

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